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PLOW. No.292.343. Patented Tani-2,1884.

. Eve 21/ 01 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. MILLEN, OFJTHOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,343, dated January 22, 1884.

Application filed December 12, 1883. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, JAMES THOMPSON MILLEN, a citizen of the United States, resid which has a heel and standard connection for shovel-cultivator or mold-board.

he object of my improvements is to avoid the clogging of the brace which usually supports the shovel-holding standard, while at the same time bracing it thoroughly and preserving the old-fashioned connection of the handles with the beam. This object I carry out by the means hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a View in perspective of a cultivator-shovel plow embracing my improvement, and Fig. 2 a rear view of the same.

The handles A A, which may be' of wood, are preferably fastened to the beazn B half-way between the clevis and standard-connections. The standard 0 is cast integral with the usual heel-piece, D, as shown. It has also a clipsocket, a, for the shovel, as is well understood. Bent wrought-iron braces E E extend vfrom both plow-handles in such manneras to be connected to the beam B at its rear end by a bolt, b, and, downwardly extending, are also bolted to the heel D, which is provided with a projection, c, for the bolt 1), for the reason that when the bolt-connection is far down in the heel-piece it will be rendered useless as the latter wears. The braces EEcurve, as shown, to suit their connection with the beam and heel-piece, and are flattened at the termination of the curve to form eye-holes for the boltconnection with the beam. I prefer to make these braces flat; but'they may be made round. All the parts except the handles are preferably of wroughtiron, as that material is not only strong, but is of lighter weight; but they may be cast, all except the braces E E, which must be of wrought-iron.

In my plowI have produced not only a light structure, easily drawn by one horse; but I have avoided lateral movement; of the beam and dispensed with the front clogging-brace, all in one plow.

Plow-handles have been braced to the beam in various ways by separate bent braces, and the plow has been braced to the beam by separate braces in various ways, and a single brace has been arranged to connect theheel of the plow-standard to the beam and to one of the handles. My improvement differs from such constructions in the particulars of the bent braces bolted to the opposite sides of the standard-heel,to the opposite sides of the beam, and to the handles, wherebyboth the latter are firmly braced to the heel of the plow-standard and the latter to the beam, giving a firm sup port for the standard-heel in the direction of the beam andlaterally, and employing such heel-support as the means for bracing the handles in every direction.

I claim? 1. The combination of the plowstandard 0, having the heel D, with the bent braces E E, the beam B, and the handles A, thesaidbraces being bolted to the plow-heel, the beam, and to the handles, in the manner shown and described.

2. The combination, with the beam and the handles, of the plow-standard having its heel D terminating in an upward extension, 0, and the bent braces E E, bolted to the opposite sides of said heel-extensiomthe opposite sides of the beam, and to the handles, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES T. MILLEN.

WVitnesses:

H. B. ZEVELY, J. W. HAMILTON J onxsox. 

